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Originally Posted by Terry
While meeting in several localities I would hear the brothers who left was due to unfulfilled ambitions (among other reasons)...
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This was one of a few off the shelf stock explanations used by Witness Lee & Co. But to use this particular one for the coworkers who were ousted in the late 1980s is really grasping at straws - to say the least.
Bill Mallon, John Ingalls, John So, etc. were at the pinnacle of success (if you will) in the LC system. They were elders locally and senior coworkers in "the work". What would they be ambitious for? The only position higher was Witness Lee's as the global boss over all the work. Does anyone seriously believe any of these brothers wanted Lee's position? Does anyone seriously believe they were stupid enough to think they had the status to realistically claim that position even if they did want it?
Witness Lee and his LSM staffers often gave silly immature explanations hoping their listeners were naive and trusting enough to take them at face value. Unfortunately for the most part they were correct.